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Graham (Gray) Scott@graythebruce.bsky.social |
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PhD. Assoc. Prof. English. Stories in X-R-A-Y, JMWW, HAD, Necessary Fiction, Pulp Lit, Nature, others. Pushcart & BSF noms.
For now at hemicyon.wordpress.com/ , but will be looking for a new home
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Renee DiResta 🆒
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There’s a debate strategy often used by pseudoscience peddlers known as the Gish Gallop. The debater throws out a barrage of false claims, one after another, far too many for the opponent to ever actually refute them all. The opponent stalls as he tries to figure out what to respond to first.
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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️🌈🚀🦄 📜
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:dons librarian hat: Digital preservation is more expensive than preserving paper; it takes more staff, active attention, and consistent computing resources. Libraries have discussed “digital dark age” since the 1990s. Corp archives often 1st to go b/c suits haven’t figured out how to profit.
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Graham (Gray) Scott
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I'm inordinately proud of this flash, and inordinately grateful to the editors at Roi Fainéant for sharing it with readers.
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Roi Fainéant Press
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Starting today with some Shakespeare-inspired flash, reimagining Hamlet. "Suppose Gertrude" by @graythebruce.bsky.social asks us to consider how things may have turned out if Gertrude had made a different choice. You should make the right choice & go read it! www.roifaineantpress.com/post/suppose...
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Graham (Gray) Scott
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The worst thing about this is that he's not even close to alone.
www.motherjones.com/environment/...
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Molly Knight
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One person’s shit post is another person’s “evidence”
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Graham (Gray) Scott
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Could be more than one kid. Back in 2017, a local volleyball team had 8 players hospitalized in a single incident after coaches ignored the heat; none died, but they were lucky. Then there's this football coach, who had four separate cases before being suspended:
973thedawg.com/west-monroe-...
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Graham (Gray) Scott
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At least when I was in it, the Army knew better than this guy. Water was damned near a religion. And we'd check wet bulb temps--even back in the early 90s--before training. So many coaches believe absolutely crazy shit. Had one tell me once that asthma was a myth, just meant you were out of shape.
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Graham (Gray) Scott
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Me too. I need to get s1 for that reason. But I'd *really* like s2, more than any other. Such a good show. Was unhealthily excited to see you list it.
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Graham (Gray) Scott
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Hap & Leonard doesn't get nearly enough attention. Best you-probably-haven't-heard-about-it series I can think of.
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Amateur Expert Opinions
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it's easier to pretend you invented the wheel yourself if you go out of your way to avoid ever talking to a wheelwright
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Graham (Gray) Scott
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My Gertrude-focused, alt-Hamlet microfiction is in today's issue of Roi Faineant! Retells a 30K-word play in 380 words.
"Brigands, the courtiers say.
Of course, she says.
A tragedy, says her suitor.
Yes, she says."
Infinite gratitude to editor Kellie Scott-Reed.
t.co/MTkhJV6YQe
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Graham (Gray) Scott
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What I like about this concept is the realism: if investors can see the futures of investments then the real-time cost of those investments will change to match, so you gain nothing. But you can still find out if you're going to say something stupid in a TV interview.
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Cursed Morsels
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Imaginative anti-fascists who write horror and Weird fiction: I've got a sub call for you. We need to get our campaign funded first (details coming soon), but in the meantime, check out our sub guidelines. We especially want international perspectives!
cursedmorsels.com/submission-c...
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Graham (Gray) Scott
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Like a dog sent to fetch a stick of dynamite, Turnitin reported overlap between draft 1 and draft 2. I had to have the case thrown out.
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Graham (Gray) Scott
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A case in point: Once an instructor I oversaw charged a student with plagiarism. It turned out the instructor had also had that student upload her *rough draft* through Turnitin a week earlier.
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Graham (Gray) Scott
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<hats I'm wearing: writing program director, academic-integrity researcher> False positives happen, but that's because a lot of profs don't know how to interpret findings. The checkers merely tell the prof where they find overlap w/ other texts. The prof then decides what the overlap *means*.
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Graham (Gray) Scott
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I know it's annoying to come up with comps, but my eyes stopped at Pirate Queen meets The Terror, and I'm deeply intrigued, so I guess the whole comp thing works. :-)
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Graham (Gray) Scott
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My son -- a Godzilla fan -- loves that film particularly because he thinks it's better than any other at capturing the awesome scale of the monsters.
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Graham (Gray) Scott
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Take care of yourself, Luke. I don't know you personally, but through your account you've made an impression on me, and I am one of many who would absolutely miss you.
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Graham (Gray) Scott
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I'm impressed with the teens, but also their school. That school is amazing.
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Graham (Gray) Scott
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It's unfortunate, not just because of the lack of representative promotion, but because as readers those guys are missing out on great writing.
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Graham (Gray) Scott
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Re: "a degree" -- There's a kind of faux expert out there who has learned to say they have degrees in stuff without actually having the implied *advanced* degrees in that stuff. e.g., There's a "physicist" on Weather Channel who just has a bachelor's. This person is doing the same thing, I think.
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Graham (Gray) Scott
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I'm so sorry to hear about your sister, Carl. Hope and I send our condolences.
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Graham (Gray) Scott
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Not formally diagnosed--from that generation--but I have a lot in common with son who is. Yes, I eschew eye contact, and on the rare occasion someone makes an issue of it, I avoid talking to them as much as possible.
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Bert Thomson
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Well said Ms Leckie. Even those who can easily afford to buy books should take them out of their local library fairly regularly, to ensure the library remains open for those that can't afford to buy - and that no argument about underuse can be put forward for shutting them down.
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Ann Leckie
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Even if checking out my book at a library didn't benefit me directly (it does, the library pays for the book and I get royalties for it) it benefits all of us indirectly. Libraries help foster the habit of reading. Some of those readers wouldn't be able to afford books just now. Some are kids.
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Graham (Gray) Scott
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It's like that meme with the two buttons. I break a proper sweat sometimes.
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Graham (Gray) Scott
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It's really reassuring to hear that this isn't as unusual as it felt. (By the time I was an adult, I would have remained a nondrinker regardless of what my step-father did. He and my Mom divorced, and I stopped paying attention to his sobriety. I was simply a nondrinker at that point.)
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Graham (Gray) Scott
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I was thinking your last line before I read it. I'm also a nondrinker. My stepfather joined AA when I was in junior high. Told him I'd stay sober as long as he did.
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Graham (Gray) Scott
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Exactly. At least I got paid for my (longer, more substantial) training.
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Scott Lynch
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Amazing stuff comes out of that period of budding, amoral imagination! KID: My friend's name is Mr. Light. You can't see him. PARENT: Wow! KID: He lives in the lamp in the corner. PARENT: That's neat! KID: Sometimes he saves the skins when he's done with people. PARENT: he fucking what now
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Graham (Gray) Scott
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"Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead" is fan fiction. (I've also written a bit of flash fan fiction of Shakespeare, but haven't found a home for it yet. Needless to say, I'm totally on board with your argument.)
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Graham (Gray) Scott
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Also fanfiction: clarkesworldmagazine.com/watts_01_10/
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John Leavitt
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I think it’s cool we gave an entire medium a prion disease - it’s like a background detail in a DeLillo book
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Graham (Gray) Scott
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100%. Here's how much I agree with you about the absurdity of that statement: In my first draft of that post, I made roughly the same comment (including the word "absurd"), but didn't have room for it and deleted it. :-) All my best to you and your son, Sean.
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Graham (Gray) Scott
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My younger son is autistic, too. Like you, I recognize key traits in myself and in my father, neither of us diagnosed. Like you, I read these news stories and my heart cracks. Aside from skin color and getting shot, Ryan sounds a lot like my kid.
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Graham (Gray) Scott
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Popehat: "Never Have I Ever..." Avenatti: <burp>, alriiight now, <burp> hold on buddieeee <topples into an unmoving heap on the floor>
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Graham (Gray) Scott
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Are you kidding? I mean, I'm hesitant to speak for other authors, but for me it's "HELL YEAH, TAG ME." That would immediately be one of my favorite notifications and not annoying at all.
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Tenebrous Press
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Hail THE SKULL & LAUREL! The campaign to launch the Tenebrous Press New Weird Fiction quarterly magazine is live now; check it out & consider backing it if your life isn't quite Weird enough🖤☠️
www.kickstarter.com/projects/mad...
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Lance Parkin
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Wins for Oppenheimer and Godzilla Minus One mean this is the first time a movie and its sequel both won Oscars the same year.
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Graham (Gray) Scott
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The Ice Road Truckers of political appointments
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Lindz McLeod (she/they)
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'An Honour And A Privilege' will produce twelve different fiction pieces in collaboration with me, each accompanied by a non-fiction piece. 8 participants have been chosen, and the remaining 4 slots will be assigned via an application process OPENING ON 15TH MARCH! I really want to get a wide pool
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Graham (Gray) Scott
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Thank you, right? I mean, Jonson burned the *god of fire* after the latter fellow deleted Jonson's account in a blaze. I ne're attempted, Vulcan , 'gainst thy life; Nor made least line of love to thy loose Wife;
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Graham (Gray) Scott
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Kit would be great, except we'd be mourning him already. :-)
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Graham (Gray) Scott
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If I may steer us into the Renaissance, I'd like to put forward Ben Jonson, overshadowed by Shakespeare but absolutely made for the age of the savage retweetable tweet.
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Graham (Gray) Scott
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That's an absolutely gorgeous cover. <bites back of hand>
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Weightless Books
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March issues of @lightspeedmagazine.com, Nightmare, The Dark, @locusmag.bsky.social, Flash Fiction Online, @clarkesworldmagazine.com, Forever, @lunastation.bsky.social, @smallwonders.bsky.social, and Weird Horror are here! weightlessbooks.com/2024/3/
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Graham (Gray) Scott
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Someone replied to a question I'd emailed by patiently explaining that "the changes ... will remain the same" and I think my brain is now broken.
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